Internet Freedom and Broadband Deployment Act of 2001: Voted to allow telecom monopolies to enter the high-speed Internet access market via their long-distance connections whether or not they have allowed competitors into their local markets as required under law. Bill HR 1542 Image Credit

5th Jun, 2006

Voted against Net Neutrality

Voted NO on HR 5252 Amendment 987, which would have prevented Telecoms from implementing "pay-to-play" restrictions on internet speed and removed the Telecom monopoly on providng internet service. InfographicImage Credit

5th Jun, 2008

Granted Warrantless Surveillance Immunity to Telecoms

Voted YES on HR6304, which granted immunity to those organizations engaged in warrantless surveillance Image Credit

Allows the U.S. Department of Justice to seek court orders to stop online ad networks and payment processors from doing business with foreign websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement without due process. SourceInfographicImage Credit

But Smith maintains: Congress cannot stand by and do nothing while American innovators and job creators are under attack. SourceImage Credit

27th Mar, 2012

Smith on SOPA: Start Over

In an interview, Lamar Smith says of SOPA "we need to wait and start over" [Source](we need to wait and start over)

2nd Apr, 2012

SOPA protest "misinformed"

Lamar Smith: "The language in the bill may have been aimed at taking on foreign piracy, but the definitions of foreign and domestic web sites in the original bill meant that it could be used to target a U.S. web site as well, if that U.S. web site was registered with a foreign domain name registrar." SourceImage Credit